Jade Blossom (2001)
by Stila

First bought this perfume in the fall of 2003 when I started dating the man who is now my husband and father of my 15 month old and baby boy on the way. He LOVES this perfume, it's quite beautiful and everytime I wear it I feel like I smell soooooo good !! I didn't even know the notes at all when I purchased it, and when I discovered what they were, I was completely surprised. I never would have thought to put lemon verbena and green tea together. Still love it after 4 years, don't wear it everyday, for me it's more of a special occasion fragrance.

I bought this on a whim at the mall and am really wishing I hadn't. It cost to much to give away but is too sweet and actually a bit odd to wear. I really would not reccomend it.

Jade Blossom sometimes reminds me of the South, where they always ask you whether you want sweet tea or unsweetened. The green tea in this fragrance is most certainly of the sweetened variety, one of the most sugary green tea notes I've yet to encounter. Fortunately, it works, creating a nice foil for the citrusy grassiness of the verbena and the cool watery cucumber. The tea here is also not of the super-strong, full bodied and potentially bitter variety, which is a good thing to me; it's more along the lines of the tea notes in Bulgari Eau Perfumee and L'Artisan The Pour Un Ete, and less like those of Barneys Route de The or MPG's Eau de Camellia Chinois. Green tea can be a tricky note with my chemistry but Jade Blossom poses no problems. And for such a light-bodied scent, it possesses surprisingly good staying power. If you apply this liberally enough, it can last all day well into the evening.